Lubricator



Patented June 16, 1885.

J. YOCOM, Jr.

LUBRIGATOR.

(No Model.)

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JAMES YOGOM, JR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LUBRICATOR.

'JPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,109, dated June 16, 1885.

Applicalion filed May 14, 1885. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES YocoM, J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Lubricators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the self-oiling attachments of shaft-bearings.

The especial class to which it relates and the nature of the invention are more clearly indicated by a reference to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section on a middle line of thelower half of a journalbox, and also of the depending oil-reservoir secured thereto, illustrating in the right-hand portion of the oil-reservoir the means heretofore employed for applying the wick, and in the left-hand portion my improved means. Fig. 2 is a top view of the oil-reservoir. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the wick and inclosed spool and spring as heretofore used in connection with a socket, d, Fig. 1, for the spring to rest in. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the wick and spring, showing a spool perforated to receive the upper end of a.vertical'rod, m, which is permanently fixed to the bottom of the oil-reservoir.

(t represents thelower half of a journal-box; b, the oil-reservoir secured to the box a by d represents a shallow socket or Screws 6.

cup on the bottom of the oil-reservoir. 0 represents a tubular wick. f represents aspool, and a spring, both .inclosed in the wick. The lower end of the spring 9 rests in the socket d, and the upper end of springg abuts against the shoulder of spoolf. The objection to thus combining the spool and spring with the wick is that the wick is free to shift its position and is thus made liable to miss the aperture h opening into the bore of the journal-box when the oil-reservoir is being applied to the journal-box.

In my improved construction t represents the wick,j the spool, It the spring. m is a vertical rod permanently affixed to the bottom of the oil-reservoir. The upper end of the rod m enters the aperture n in the spool, and acts positively to keep the wick in its proper position and cause it to enter the aperture h opening into the bore of thcjournal-box when the oil-reservoir is being applied to the journal-boX.

I claim- In combination with the oil-reservoir of a journal-box, the wick i, spoolj, spring k, and fixed rod m, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

JAMES YOOOM, JR.

\Vitnesses:

P. A. FENIMORE, J. E. SHAW. 

